Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Steady Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.
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The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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In June of 1776, Richard Henry Lee, rising before the Continental Congress to move his resolution for American independence, declared: 'The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us; she demands of us a living example of freedom.'
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I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion.
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
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Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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This is something, eh, that is the kind of thing that must be gone through with what I believe is best not talked about too much until we know whatever answers there will be.
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
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It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
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Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.